Example sentences of "any more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 2 | There are 20-odd literary prizes for children 's books , but is a gold medal stuck to the cover any more than a clever marketing ploy ? |
| 3 | Gassendi does not claim , of course , that it is any more than a hypothesis that the properties , changes , and actions of things are to be explained by reference to their atomic parts . |
| 4 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 5 | If ethologists are truly interested in an ethology of human relating we have to drop the pretence that , given present knowledge , evolutionary arguments are any more than a game for the psychologically literate . |
| 6 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 7 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |
| 8 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state . |
| 9 | No one can make a dead duck go ‘ quack ’ any more than a dead person can be made to speak . |
| 10 | Characteristics may be refined by breeding to some relatively small degree , but such behaviour can never be fundamentally altered , any more than a dog can be bred into a cat , or a pigeon into a parrot . |
| 11 | This adds further interest in the picture , but you should be careful not to have any more than a corner of sky in the final print . |
| 12 | A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ . |
| 13 | It told readers : ‘ The couple were no longer any more than a cracked facade . |
| 14 | Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry . |
| 15 | But is it any more than a legend ? |
| 16 | But not having a learning difficulty is no guarantee of competent parenthood , any more than a learning difficulty label automatically means the reverse . |
| 17 | Admittedly , a No from the Bosnian Serbs should not be considered as an unequivocal , irreversible rejection of the peace plan , any more than a Yes should have been regarded as a wholehearted acceptance of it . |
| 18 | Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way , any more than a command can be . |
| 19 | No qualified surgeon can be expected to do an occasional experiment in molecular biology in the laboratory any more than a molecular biologist can be expected to perform an occasional operation . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , among economists , the jury is still out on whether regional trade blocs and bilateral trade agreements are any more than a second-best strategy . |
| 21 | There is no hint that dreaming , in this context , was any more than a poetic device , with no connotation of the supernatural simply from the fact that it was a dream . |
| 22 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 23 | No professional counsellor can " fix " or " caretaker for " a sufferer any more than a family member or other concerned person can do so . |
| 24 | She left in the end without any more than a brotherly handshake on my part . |
| 25 | The news about the lady 's quiverful of kiddies does not seem to have been any more than a very temporary dose of saltpetre , and it 's worn off . |
| 26 | None of these bodies , any more than a regional secretary , is an expert in personal injury litigation . |
| 27 | I think , I mean , he makes the emphasis here that the body is not any more than a tool |
| 28 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 29 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 30 | Well is it any more than a tennis court ? |